I often write and see written something like "Fix typo" in commit messages, when the fix was not in fact for a "typographical error". It might have been a duplicate word, a small grammatical problem (perhaps have/has, they're/their), an awkward construction, or a mistaken identifier. Is there a good, compact word or phrase that would describe this more accurately, but perhaps isn't as pretentious and hollow as "Fix minor linguistic problems"?
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For a single generic phrasing, I'd suggest "correct text".
For more specific commit messages, "fix grammar", "fix spelling", "re-word message", or "rewrite text" could all be used.